Passage 2 While men continue to occupy the upper echelons of most organizations, women have made considerable progress in acquiringhigh status roles in organizations. According to U.S. Department of Labor Data, women now hold at least 50% of managementand professional positions, outnumbering males in roles such as financial managers, accountants, and medical and healthservices managers. These workplace changes have affected household roles as well: whereas U.S. women were the primarybreadwinners in 18% of marriages in 1987, that number rose to 29% in dual-income marriages by 2014. Despite these organizational and economic changes, societal norms still suggest that in heterosexual marriages, husbands“should” hold higher job status relative to their wives. When this norm is violated, and wives hold the higher status job, negativeconsequences can follow: Women are disparagingly referred to as having “married down,” are more likely to be targets of husbands’ aggression, and the risk for divorce increases. With these findings in mind, we wanted to examine whether and howwomen’s high status jobs might impact the quality of their marriages and whether wives’ perceptions of, and feelings about, theirhusbands’ job status led to marital instability.
31. The topic of the passage is about ______.
(A) whether heterosexual marriages are more risky in term of jobs
(B) whether women’s high economic status might hurt their marriage
(C) husband’s job status might affect wives’ perception of their own jobs
(D) consequences that women’s higher status job might cause